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Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, would tomorrow publicly name those behind the spate of insecurity in the state. Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, in a statement in Owerri, said the governor would use the occasion of the sixth edition of Imo Stakeholders Forum to name sponsors and financiers of insecurity in the state. He […]

The presidency says visitors to the presidential villa in Abuja will be required to take rapid COVID tests before they would be allowed in. Garba Shehu, presidential spokesperson, confirmed the development to state house correspondents in Abuja on Sunday. Rapid COVID tests are designed to tell in a few minutes if someone is infected with […]

President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement to the nation on January 1, 2022. We remain grateful to the Almighty God for yet another Year attained as a country, united by a common destiny and resolute in our determination to overcome the several challenges along the path to build the great and prosperous nation of our dream. 2. […]

The Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry Enugu, Nigeria, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, on Saturday, appealed to his fellow priests to stop castigating him for praying for and blessing the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, over his travails. The cleric, who intensified prayers for the release of the IPOB leader […]

A kidnap suspect named Ayobamidele Ayodele who was nabbed in Ogun State confessed that he learnt the act of kidnapping by watching Zubby Michael’s movies. Ayodele was arrested for abducting a six-year-old boy, Ebube Eze, after the victim’s father sent a petition to the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba. The 23-year-old was nabbed by […]

Pope Francis urged the world to “roll up our sleeves” for peace in a New Year’s message Saturday, while calling violence against women an affront to God. Marking the 55th World Day of Peace, the head of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics devoted his Angelus address to encouraging a stop to violence around the world, […]

The Director-General, Tinubu Support Groups Mgt. Council, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has confirmed that former Governor of Lagos State and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will indeed be contesting in the forthcoming 2023 Presidential election. “Sometimes I find it a bit funny when I hear people saying is he contesting or not. […]

The Federal Government has disbursed about $300m to the poor and vulnerable in its National Social Register through N5,000 cash transfers in four years. This was disclosed by the National Coordinator, National Social Safety Nets Coordinating Office, Mr Apera Iorwa, in an exclusive interview with Sunday Punch. The agency, which is under the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian […]

The United Nations Children Emergency Fund on Friday decried the high rate of children’s abductions, violations among others in 2021. This was as the UN organisation classified Nigeria, Somalia, Congo, Chad, Cameroon and Niger as the countries with the highest cases of verified abductions. This was also as a tally conducted by Saturday Punch revealed that no […]

Lagos State Government has announced that all public and private schools below the tertiary level in the state will resume for the second term 2021/2022 academic session on Tuesday, January 4, 2022. The Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance, Mrs. Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, made this known in a statement on Friday, titled, ‘Lagos public and private […]

The People’s Democratic Party has urged Nigerians to use the New Year to rekindle the virtues of love, unity, social justice as well as the quest for good governance in the country. This is as the party noted that surviving the year 2021 under the “repressive, treasury-looting, completely rudderless and lying All Progressives Congress-led administration […]

Nigerian naira weakened against the dollar at the parallel market to trade at N570 amid demand for the currency during the yuletide season. This is a drop of N5 or 0.9 percent from the N565 it traded last week. Street traders across forex markets in Lagos quoted the rate at N570 to a dollar on Thursday. […]

President Muhammadu Buhari, Thursday met with the former President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, at the presidential villa, Abuja. The agenda of the meeting with the former president which took place at about 3 pm was not made public. However, Jonathan regularly comes to the villa to brief the president on his activities as ECOWAS Special Envoy […]

Billionaire and club owner, Obi Cubana has built a church in his home town, Oba, Anambra State. The philanthropist said that the Anglican Church is in memory of his late mother who was buried months back. In a video of the newly built church posted on his verified Instagram page, Obi Cubana revealed that construction […]